It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights.

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

We are either a United people, or we are not. If the former, let us, in all maters of general concern act as a nation, which have national objects to promote, and a national character to support. If we are not, let us no longer act a farce by pretending to it.

I use no Porter ... in my family, but such as is made in America: both these articles may now be purchased of an excellent quality.

The best way to have peace is to always be prepared to fight a way.

The prospect, that a good general government will in all human probability be soon established in America, affords me more substantial satisfaction; than I have ever before derived from any political event. Because there is a rational ground for believing that not only the happiness of my own countrymen, but that of mankind in general, will be promoted by it.